White-haired Demon Lord and Senior Brother

◎After leaving the county palace◎

Facing Zhu Yanfeng's eyes, Huang Yan raised the corners of his lips again, and said, "Appealing in a clear identity, those gentry who want face will definitely not be rewarded with face. It's just a waste of time if it goes on like this. Why don't you use a more insidious method."

Zhu Yanfeng was slightly stunned, and soon fell into worry, and grabbed Huang Yan's hand: "Don't do bad things! This will only add trouble to yourself, and it will also embarrass Qingluan City!"

Huang Yan asked with a slight smile: "Are insidious methods all bad things? For example, if you don't drive a donkey away with a whip, will the donkey pull the stone mill obediently and diligently?"

Zhu Yanfeng thought about it carefully, calmed down slowly, and asked, "Then what should we do?"

Huang Yan only said: "I already have a plan in my heart, and I will act according to the plan when I arrive at the next city, but you must agree, no matter what I say or do when the time comes, you just cooperate with me."

Zhu Yanfeng agreed: "As long as it's not a heinous thing, I can cooperate with you."

Leading the horse along the street to the Chengguan, after successfully passing the Chengguan, the two rode on their horses and galloped all the way through the deserted mountain road. Huang Yan broke the silence of the road: "There is one thing that I always feel uncomfortable OK."

Zhu Yanfeng was curious: "I really want to hear it."

Huang Yan said: "Since the murder case happened, one idea of ​​the court has always remained the same. Have you noticed that every time there is a meeting to discuss the murderer, the idea of ​​the court brought by that kid is 'Which street did the murderer go to? ' and 'where did the murderer go', and 'how to catch the murderer' but never paid much attention to 'why the murderer ran'."

Zhu Yanfeng smiled and replied: "Is it because this case is indeed related to Timu, so you care about it? To be honest, everyone would think that 'the murderer ran away because he was afraid of being caught and punished after committing the crime', and I was like that at first. think."

Huang Yan continued: "I have been friends with Timu for many years, and he is the best at making Gu, so others must have made strange Gu by using his unique secrets and the utensils and ingredients that he regarded as treasures, and used them here In a murder case, but Gu has always been very lazy and will not run around by itself, there must be something that interests it, making it control the murderer to run in a certain direction."

Zhu Yanfeng thought for a while, and felt that there was nothing wrong with this way of thinking, so he agreed: "What you said is also possible."

Huang Yan said: "As long as it is determined what is pulling this Gu, then its source must be someone related to the mastermind behind the scenes, or even the mastermind behind the scenes."

Zhu Yanfeng continued: "The only difficult thing is, how can we meet the murderer? There was a prodigal son who was lucky enough to meet him. I hope we have such good luck."

Huang Yan replied: "Yes, thanks to that person, we finally confirmed that the murderer was controlled by Gu."

Zhu Yanfeng picked up the gourd, handed it over, and said with concern: "I've been busy for a long time, let's take a sip of spring water."

Huang Yan replied: "I'm not thirsty yet."

Zhu Yanfeng put down the gourd, hung it on his waist, took out a paper bag, opened it, and handed it over as before: "How about a piece of snowflake cake?"

Without further ado, Huang Yan picked up a piece and took a bite. Zhu Yanfeng looked at him and couldn't help but look at the snowflake crisps in the paper bag in his hand. Suddenly, Huang Yan's voice came from the side: "You want to eat, Just eat."

Zhu Yanfeng replied: "I was just thinking, what is the taste of the fruit that has the meaning of 'filial piety' made by my own child or adopted child?"

Huang Yan said generously: "So, you can take it and eat it."

Zhu Yanfeng picked up a piece casually, tasted it and said: "The princess's craftsmanship is really good. This piece of snowflake cake is sweet and crisp, a little soft, and it is a daughter's 'filial piety'."

Huang Yan replied: "Are you envious of me? If you are free, you can adopt one yourself."

Zhu Yanfeng said with regret: "I lost my parents since I was a child. If I raise my child as a parent, I don't know what to do..."

The corners of Huang Yan's lips only evoked a slight smile, and he put aside the topic. He just took out a piece of Snowflake Cake from the paper bag in Zhu Yanfeng's hand. He was about to take a bite, but when he glanced at Zhu Yanfeng, he suddenly changed his mind. The original intention was sent to Zhu Yanfeng's mouth.Zhu Yanfeng was stunned, Huang Yan said he wanted to give him another taste, and he swallowed it into his mouth, a little hasty at the time, and accidentally swallowed it on Huang Yan's fingertips.

Huang Yan withdrew his hand, looked at his fingertips, and then curled his fingers into his palm.Zhu Yanfeng turned his head and looked at Huang Yan, but Huang Yan didn't say anything, just looked forward calmly, and said: "Let's go to the next city."

Zhu Yanfeng nodded, responded with an "um", then wiped the crumbs of snowflake crisps on his mouth with the back of his hand, rewrapped the snowflake crisps, put them away, carried the burden tightly, and walked quickly through the crowds with Huang Yan the main street.

At that time, on Yangui Island, a figure walked slowly through the corridor. It was a sunny day outside the corridor, and the heat was gradually intensifying. Even the daily breeze gradually made people feel less cool, and their appetite was also weakened. Subtracted little by little due to heat.

Because Yangui Island is an island, the sea breeze is blowing in all directions, which is a bit better than the mainland, which makes Yang Qingyuan like life here even more.

Before reaching the end of the corridor, a call came from behind: "Mr. Qingyuan!" Yang Qingyuan immediately turned his head, and saw a maid walking quickly with a bamboo basket, and Murong Heihei was lying in the basket licking the cat leisurely. His hands and body already occupied the entire bottom of the basket.Yang Qingyuan glanced at the cat and asked, "Did he tell me to tease the cat? Or feed the cat?"

The maid replied: "Neither! Young master asked you to go to the bathroom and wait for Mr. Cat to wash his body!"

……What?Tell me to wash this cat?

Yang Qingyuan wondered, looked at the scorching sun outside, and had no choice but to say: "Just go, this kind of sun is just right for roasting cat hair..." He took the bamboo basket and went to the bathroom.

A wooden basin, a gourd ladle, a cloth towel, and a shell of goat milk soap, all the things were prepared, and the cuffs of the blue wide-sleeved shirt and the cuffs of the autumn-scented and green cross-collared robe were bound with loops, and Yang Qingyuan put them together. The cat took it out of the basket and hugged it in its arms. Murong Heihei didn't know what would happen next, so he just wagged his tail leisurely.

Yang Qingyuan squatted halfway in front of the wooden basin, put the cat into the warm water, stepped on the warm water blackly, and was slightly stunned. He turned his head and called 'meow' to Yang Qingyuan. Yang Qingyuan said helplessly: "I don't want to do this kind of drudgery either. But this is what your master told you." Scooped up a ladle of warm water and poured it on the back of the cat's neck, soaking everything below the cat's neck.

Heihei yelled 'meow' at the loudest voice, and was about to jump out of the wooden basin, but Yang Qingyuan stopped him with his hand, applied soap to the wet cat fur, then vigorously rubbed the cat fur everywhere, after washing the cat, he put it on Rinse it with clean warm water, and the cat's fur that had been dyed gray turned back to snow white in the blink of an eye.

He washed the cat with warm water for the last time, took the cat out of the wooden basin, wrapped it in a cloth towel, wiped the cat's fur half dry, put the cat in the basket again, packed things quickly, and then held the basket with a silk umbrella for the sun , came to the place where the Lieyang shop was illuminated, and put the basket on the stone table.

However, he couldn't sit down. The stone bench was scorched hot by the scorching sun, so he could only lean against the edge of the table, leaning the handle of the umbrella lightly on his shoulder, looking back at the cat in the basket from time to time, and murmured suddenly: "The life of a cat is really comfortable, but it's a pity that life is too short. Life is so hard, but it is as long as water flowing eastward. God really doesn't give the slightest discount when creating life."

After a few cups of tea, he stretched out his hand and stroked the cat's fur with his five fingers. There was no sticky wet feeling. Then he took out a small wooden comb from his belt and combed the messy cat's fur neatly. He yawned, and he was very calm about moving his cat's fur casually.

After completing this order, Yang Qingyuan didn't stay in the scorching sun for a long time, picked up the bamboo basket, and took the cat back to the house. Just as he returned to the vestibule of Yueming Qingfeng Building, an open door caught his attention, and directly Step over the threshold and step into the house to find out.Someone in the room turned around and said to him, "You came back in time."

Yang Qingyuan asked: "Are you here to check if the cat has been cleaned?"

Murong Wuyan stepped forward slowly, looked at the black in the basket in his hand, stroked the cat's head, and said: "It's really soft after washing, it feels fluffy."

Yang Qingyuan corrected, "That's thanks to Sunshine."

Wu Yan said: "The weather is so good, we should wash the cat more times."

Yang Qingyuan persuaded: "It's not good for cats to wash too much, right? Hei Hei doesn't like bathing either."

Wu Yan replied: "As long as it goes out and rolls around and soils its fur, then it can only be washed."

Yang Qingyuan immediately said to Hei Hei: "Don't roll around and dirty your hair, you know? I'm tired of washing you!" However, Hei Hei didn't pay attention, and just licked the back of Wu Yan's hand to please his master.

After Wu Yan stopped, he ordered the maid behind him: "Show him the things."

The maid came forward with a wooden tray, Yang Qingyuan glanced at the fabric in the wooden tray, and wondered: "This is...?"

Wu Yan replied: "Can you just take one and try it?"

Yang Qingyuan first put the basket lightly on the table, then took off the long-sleeved gown he was wearing, casually picked up a new dress from the wooden tray, unfolded it, put it on, and opened his arms to look at his arms , looked down at himself again, regretfully said: "It would be great if the mirror was here."

Wu Yan knew that this man would be rather grumpy, so he made preparations, turned to the bottom of the new clothes, took out a round mirror, and held it in front of him.Yang Qingyuan immediately felt relieved, looked in the mirror, and said with satisfaction: "Not bad, really good." After taking off the new clothes, he suddenly felt strange: "However, how does your tailor know my size?"

Wu Yan deliberately concealed it, and only said: "It's not bad to have new clothes for you, do you need to care about anything else?"

Yang Qingyuan put the new clothes back on the wooden tray, took the wooden tray and put it on the table, and asked while putting on the wide-sleeved gown, "You are so generous this time, you gave it to me for free?"

Wu Yan replied: "Of course not. You have to continue working on Yangui Island to repay the debt."

Yang Qingyuan couldn't help but slumped his shoulders: "Washing the dishes or fetching water, sweeping the floor and removing dust, or washing clothes and chopping firewood?"

Wu Yan replied: "Neither. My father has told me that I can't treat you badly, so you should go to the Cangjian Tower tomorrow morning to polish all those rusty swords."

Yang Qingyuan's shoulders slumped even more, and he wondered: "What's the difference between this kind of work and washing dishes, fetching water, sweeping the floor, removing dust, washing clothes and chopping firewood..."

Seeing him like this, the maid couldn't help laughing, but because of Wu Yan's presence, she quickly restrained herself.Wu Yan only said to Yang Qingyuan: "Those who have practiced martial arts and used swords for many years will know how well a sword needs to be polished to be effective."

Yang Qingyuan was still puzzled: "Do you know how tiring it is to polish a rusty sword..."

Wu Yan promised: "I won't let you work for nothing."

Yang Qingyuan turned his head, glanced at Hei Hei who was lying in the basket wagging his tail leisurely, and asked, "What about the cat?"

Wu Yan answered as a matter of course: "Naturally accompany me."

Yang Qingyuan sighed softly: "I won't have a cat to accompany me tomorrow..."

The next day was also a pleasant weather, Yang Qingyuan got up early, went to the hidden sword building with the attendants of Murong Villa early, opened the old wooden box, the dust flew out, and also brought out a smell of rusty iron, Yang Qingyuan slightly Frowning, covering his mouth and nose with one hand, he waved away the dust flying in the air with the other.

He picked out a rusty long sword at random, and went down to the hidden sword building. The attendant had prepared a wooden basin for him to hold water, as well as gourds, ladles, whetstones, and cloth towels for wiping sweat. He took the cloth towels and hung them up. Squat down on your shoulders before the whetstone and set to work.

Before noon, Wuyan came to the vicinity of the Cangjian Building, just stood at the corner of the outer wall of a house, holding Heihei in his arms with both hands, watching Yang Qingyuan's back from a distance, Heihei looked at himself leisurely Slowly wagging its tail.

After a while, Wu Yan lowered his head and suddenly asked the cat in his arms: "Hei Hei, tell me, if in your cat life, you have already made an appointment with a cat to have a husband and wife relationship, but his whereabouts are unknown later, You suddenly meet his twin brother again, although he is not the cat you have agreed with and is often annoying, but you care about his life and death, cherish every little bit of every meeting with him, and even feel very happy, Tell me, what decision should you make?"

Hei Hei just kept looking ahead leisurely, but after a while, he broke away from Wu Yan's arms suddenly, turned over nimbly, landed deftly, and then ran towards the back in his sight.Wu Yan was stunned, and murmured: "This is the decision you made for me, isn't it?"

Hei Hei ran to Yang Qingyuan's side, rubbed Yang Qingyuan lightly with the top of his head, and called 'meow' coquettishly.Yang Qingyuan glanced at it sideways, and replied: "I'm very busy! I don't have any dried fish with me now, can I give it to you later?"

A few days later, it was a night when it was raining continuously and wet the lanterns on the street. Through the lantern paper, the lights and the cold rain confronted each other, and one or two lanterns that could not bear it fell from the height of the lantern stand , There was a light sound, and the lantern paper was burned by the splashing lights at once, and the blazing flames were gradually extinguished by the continuous rain.

Two silhouettes of a man and a horse galloped quickly across this lonely and dark long street. The black iron frame glazed cup swayed gently on the side of the saddle, and the flame in the cup also swayed slightly. When they arrived at an inn, both the man and the horse stopped. , The man in front immediately rushed to the door and knocked eagerly.

After a while, the door opened, and the clerk's confused face was peeped out. He saw a man with black hair and brown pupils, and a man with silver-white hair and silver-gray pupils standing behind him. The two of them were almost soaked. , the strands of hair were sticking together one by one because they got wet first, looking very miserable and pitiful, the clerk suddenly felt pity, and immediately said: "You two guests, come in quickly!"

Zhu Yanfeng and Huang Yan carried their bundles and lamps and walked into the inn. The staff went out to the porch outside the door to look at the horses and made sure that the reins had been fastened to the posts before returning to the inn with peace of mind and closing the door.

After writing down the guest's surname and room number, and accepting the deposit, the clerk said again: "The two guests, do you want to prepare hot water? It's not good if you catch a cold."

Zhu Yanfeng immediately said: "Alright." Turning around, he took Huang Yan upstairs and entered the reserved guest room, instead of sitting down and resting immediately, he just took out a Ge linen towel from the bag, and wiped Huang Yan's half-wet face and hair thread.

Huang Yan grabbed his wrist, looked at him, and opened his lips: "Obviously you need it too..."

Zhu Yanfeng said generously: "I don't mind." He continued to wipe Huang Yan, and then touched Huang Yan's clothes, persuading him: "It's all wet, change it soon."

Huang Yan didn't answer, just walked to the desk, picked out one or two pieces of clothes from Zhu Yanfeng's bag, threw them to Zhu Yanfeng, then picked out one or two pieces of clothes from his own bag, and immediately went to the back of the screen to change.Zhu Yanfeng caught the clothes, smiled, and followed behind the screen.

There was a knock on the door, Zhu Yanfeng opened the door immediately, and the clerk outside the door was carrying a wooden bucket filled with warm water, and said to him: "Guest officer, the water is here, wash your face and warm your feet! "

Zhu Yanfeng simply asked the waiter to enter the guest room, the waiter put down the wooden barrel, and said to him: "If you have any other orders, just call, the little one will come right away!" Stepped downstairs.

Zhu Yanfeng soaked the cloth towel in water, wrung out the water droplets, just as Huang Yan walked out slowly from behind the screen, Zhu Yanfeng handed the cloth towel to Huang Yan, but Huang Yan took a look and said: "I don't think my face is dirty either."

Zhu Yanfeng didn't say anything, just gently pulled Huang Yan to the table, sat him down, then gently wiped his face and neck, and wiped his forearm before returning to the barrel, washing After a cloth towel, wipe your face and neck instead.

Before going to sleep, the two sat quietly around the barrel, each other's feet were soaked in warm water, and the coldness after being wet by the rain disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Yanfeng turned his head, looked at Huang Yan, and said, "It's very warm."

Huang Yan didn't have anything to say, and could only respond, "En."

Zhu Yanfeng asked: "Will you check the clues when you get up tomorrow?"

Huang Yan stroked the somewhat messy hair on one side of his temple with one hand, and said, "It depends on the situation."

Zhu Yanfeng sighed: "It rained a lot tonight, I don't know if it will be sunny tomorrow..."

Huang Yan replied: "So, it depends on the situation."

Zhu Yanfeng stretched his arms around Huang Yan's waist, and hugged his waist. The shoulders of the two of them became tighter and tighter. Together, they slowly waited for the water in the wooden bucket to dissipate all the heat, and then slowly thought about going to bed. .